Diri, Okowa back BVAS, constitutional role for monarchs

• Published date: 19 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Ukrainian officials said 18 people, including its Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, other senior ministry officials and three children, died yesterday when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv.

The regional governor said 29 people were also hurt, including 15 children, when the helicopter came down in a residential area in Brovary, on the capital's northeastern outskirts.

Reports said several dead bodies draped in foil blankets lay in a courtyard near the damaged nursery. Emergency workers were on the scene. Debris was scattered over a playground.

National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko said Monastyrskyi was killed alongside his first deputy, Yevheniy Yenin, and other officials in a helicopter belonging to the state emergency service.

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